Cuba

See also: First Occupation of Cuba, Second Occupation of Cuba, and Bay of Pigs Invasion

Fidel Castro visiting Washington D.C. after the Cuban Revolution

During the late 1800s, the U.S. sought to expand its economic interests by developing an economy overseas. This sentiment would help expand the support for the Spanish-American War and Cuban liberation despite the U.S. previously establishing itself as anti-independence and revolution. Nonetheless, the war with Spain would allow Cuba to gain its independence from the Spanish crown, though it would be replaced with American influence on political structure with such developments as the Platt Amendment. Support for the Cuban dictator, Fulgencio Batista, would also come from the U.S., as his economic beliefs benefitted American business interests, although this would lessen with the Cuban revolution.

The Cuban revolution carried massive anti-U.S. sentiments exemplified by Fidel Castro's political rhetoric and later Che Guevara's speech at the United Nations. In Che Guevara's "Homeland or Death" speech at the United Nations, the anti-imperialist message would apply both globally and specifically to the United States. Despite this message, the United States would allegedly try to assassinate Fidel Castro over 600 times, although no attempts were successful.